Intel and Siemens announced plans Thursday to take VoIP from a
largely consumer-based medium and expand its use in the corporate
world. To achieve that goal, the two companies will work together on
new technologies. The first focus would be on VOIP communications over
secure wireless networks.
"Siemens has a strong commitment to
this joint-development effort and to ongoing collaboration with Intel,"
Siemens enterprise division head Thomas Zimmermann said in a statement.
The company is currently in the process of transforming both its
telecommunications and enterprise businesses into joint ventures to
save on costs.
In addition to the initial work, the agreement also calls for work to
integrate VoIP into the business processes of such fields as
telecommunications service providers, financial services and digital
healthcare. Additionally, the two companies would jointly market the
products to enterprise customers.
The first products as a result of
the joint effort would begin to appear in the fourth quarter of 2006.
Solutions will be built on top of Intel's dual-core processor and
server technology, in conjunction with Siemen's HiPath 8000 and
OpenScape telecommunications technology.
Intel said it would
offer its labs as a central location for third-party developers and
ISVs to build their solutions on top of the two companies'
technologies. Intel and Siemens would also jointly optimize Intel's
processor technology to work with the VoIP solution.
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